Connecticut topics get top billing in PBS programs

Published 12:00 am, Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Filmmaker Ann Prum of New Haven used high-tech cameras to film elusive hummingbirds, shown here in photos from her upcoming PBS documentary. Peter Casolino/Register

Filmmaker Ann Prum of New Haven used high-tech cameras to film elusive hummingbirds, shown here in photos from her upcoming PBS documentary. Peter Casolino/Register

Connecticut topics get top billing in PBS programs

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The photography and production of Wednesday night's "Nature" episode on ducks on PBS has several ties to Connecticut.

Last night's "Frontline" program at 9:30 -- made more timely by a right-to-die bill looming in the Connecticut legislature -- also featured a Connecticut issue.

The 8 p.m. Wednesday "Nature" episode, called "An Original Duckumentary," features the cinematography of North Haven-raised Michael Male, also spotlighted in a recent Register article on snowy owls. His duck scenes were originally filmed for one of Male's bird guides that he produces with his wife Judy Fieth.

But as Male points out in an email, the duck episode has a larger New Haven connection, too.

"The producer, and cinematographer of most of the film, is Ann Prum, who lives in New Haven," Male said. "She did a PBS Nature film about hummingbirds a couple of years ago that was a hit. ... She is married to Richard Prum, the Yale ornithologist who received a MacArthur Fellows award a couple of years ago."